Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor
2007 · 21 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 1,423 VOTES · DIR. Koji Yamamura
Overview
A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.
Dialogue Timeline — 130 lines
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00:00:22 The true way is along a rope
00:01:17 An urgent journey was facing me.
00:03:09 Shall I hitch up?
00:04:39 I don't know where this man comes from.
00:05:17 You don't know the way.
00:05:38 Or else, no matter how urgent it is
00:07:41 In such cases the gods do help.
00:08:56 This young man is healthy.
00:09:32 I am employed by the district and do my duty to the full
00:10:02 What am I doing here in this endless winter?
00:10:43 It's easy to write prescriptions
00:11:18 I fear they all want to torture me.
00:12:10 I am somehow ready to concede that the young man is perhaps truly sick.
00:12:56 I have found out your great wound.
00:13:47 Take his clothes off
00:14:18 It's only a doctor.
00:14:57 The best thing would be if I scratch your eyes out.
00:15:20 Alas, I'll probably have to be.
00:15:47 and I can assure you
00:16:20 Or are you deceiving me in my fever?
00:17:34 Enjoy yourselves, you patients.
00:17:55 I'll never come home at this rate.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed130
Dialogue density6.2 lines / min
First line00:00:22
Final line00:17:55
Production Record
DirectorKoji Yamamura
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes1,423